I got a job today. VB6.
My first interview. My first programming job.
Just wanted to share the happiness. :D
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I got a job today. VB6.
My first interview. My first programming job.
Just wanted to share the happiness. :D
Congratulations. :D good luck
Congrats!
Congrats and be prepared to develop an ulcer. :D
Thanks guys.
It is 2 hour journey from my home. The salary is not very good.
But I still like the job.
It's all about API/Hooking/DOM.....basically the things I like most.....ok.....and Winsocok. :D
And my boss said, I'll never have to do databases. :thumb:
Doing what? What platform will you be developing on and what language(s) will you be using.Quote:
Originally Posted by iPrank
Lets not forget migraines too. They get very angry when they get forgotten.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
HAve you been celebrating? as your spelling is slighy off ;)
Great news man, just keep at it :)
Famous last words. :)
Just get at least 1 year experience there and then move on to a better job as your experience will make you more marketable and the pay will increase too.
This sounds like your first job, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by iPrank
You will probably be moving on in a couple or three years once you have some experience under your belt. Looking for a better paying job is generally the next logical step in career building, so not knowing how to deal with databases might be detriment down the road.
Kudos on the new status mate. It is now your mission in life to show your boss that you should be using .NET instead of that archaic kindergarten script.
Anyways, since you can now afford luxuries, you can buy us all a beer or 6.
Nice going pal.
Platform - mainly WinXP. Language - VB6.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack
This company makes system maintenance utilities/spyware remover etc.
My parents left for a wedding just when I came back, my GF's telephone is out of order, my friends are busy doing college work :(Quote:
Originally Posted by thegreatone
It is only you guys I have. http://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2006/03/1.gif
I'm stuck in the college work boat... Actually, better get cracking, i've been messing with DVD's for the past few hours... whoops.Quote:
Originally Posted by iPrank
Ah, happiness. Enjoy it while it lasts! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by iPrank
:confused: Is it sad out in Rainy Adelaide?Quote:
Originally Posted by penagate
1) CONGRATS!!Quote:
Originally Posted by iPrank
2) give it a year.. then start looking for a new job.. the 2 hr drive will be fine at first.. but after 6 months.. u will be ready.. trust me.. I pulled a 1 1/2 hr comute for a year and a half.. sucked.
3) Spyware removers!??? Get to work on a good remover for SpyAxe and SpywareQuake.. They SUCK and are major pains to remove. you get those down and people will flock to them. Spybot has one for SpywareQuake but it doesnt work right.
Don't listen to all these killjoys saying things like "Enjoy it while it lasts".
I got my first proper coding job at the start of this year and I'm still loving it. Its one of those jobs that if you are having a good day then its REALLY good and you are on a high and you can code all day and then it's 5pm and you don't want to go home. OK so if its a slow day (ie. waiting for the idiot users to find bugs) then the seconds drag by. But when you get that spark of inspiration or if you manage to devise an algorithm that beats current technology by 80% then its like a rush. You can't beat a feeling lik that (at least during work hours :D).
Live to hack, work to live.
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Originally Posted by RobDog888
Thanks guys. :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack
Any more tip ? I'm a n00b in job. Please give cod. :D
I'm afraid, this will not happen until Vista spreads out.Quote:
Originally Posted by wossname
Thanks. But could you please wait one month ? Until I get salary ? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by wossname
:blush: Why thank you wossy. I had no idea you cared. :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by wossname
Damn ! I stopped getting notifications again ! :mad:
/em jealous of Wossy.
It's been a long time since I've had a day like that, but they are great. Anyway, hope it works out for you and good luck!
I've never had a day like that :confused:
Anyway, congrats. Best of luck :)
Agree with Hack about DB's, you have to know them unfortunately :)
Yeah, DB's are an aquired taste; kinda like beer. At first you want nothing to do with them. After you use them a bit, you do everything you can to bogart the servers so no one else can mess with your DBs.
LOL.. thats how I used to code my access DB's at my last job.. I was always fixing everyone elses work and my boss actually said to me "What is it u do here?" :eek: .. that was when I started looking for a new job. and when I left.. I got calls for weeks on end.. "How did u do this!!??" "It wont work!??" "Whats wrong with this??" ;) hmmm guess they shoulda been nicer to me and I wouldve made my code easy to fix. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
Congrats iPrank!!!
One more thing...the best thing...
my boss said, we have no restrictions on internet usage. We can do whatever we want, legal of course, to get the job done.
.... and everyone knows CC is the best place to research. :D
When nouns and verbs collide.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack
m(_ _)mQuote:
my boss said, we have no restrictions on internet usage. We can do whatever we want, legal of course, to get the job done.
.... and everyone knows CC is the best place to research.
Now I'm insanely jealous of you. I sit next to our network admin and one day he blocked this site. It was back when i was first starting VB.Net and had NO other help avaliable (95% of everything I know about .Net is from here). I asked him why he did it, and he said quote: "Because I could." :sick:
I think i would have hit him....and then got fired. Its always worth hitting a cocky person though :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
they have blocked this site at a few of my prev jobs.. theres always a way around it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
gotta find the door.. lol
Adjectives and adverbs just step asideQuote:
Originally Posted by wossname
Hack shouldn't your signature read
"Got a question on Linux? Don't bother asking Wossy as he is inept"
?
You wouldn't beleive how close I've gotten to that.... One day I was so fed up with him (not the job, not the work, no one else; just him), that I was literally about to walk out the door. We've gotten into shouting matches (like real shouting matches) in the past and still do peridically.Quote:
I think i would have hit him....
The thing that really sucks is, he's my boss and there's no management above him in our "IT Department." It's just me (the db admin, web dev, app dev, systems architect, technical support) and him (the network admin). He was he first, so he's my boss.
thumb tacks on his chair
I'm getting better. I'm nearly done with my first cross platform terminal mode program. Open source naturally. The first 10 people get a limited edition.Quote:
Originally Posted by random no-mark chitchatter
Buy yourself a balaclava a wear it while you beat him after work. He'l never know :D (im not a physco :rolleyes: )Quote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
The best one i've ever heard of is water in a chair. Stay late after work and pour water into his cushion. That way in the morning the surface will be dry. He'll have wet pants all day. :)
He's bigger then me. I've put signs on his back and he duct taped me to the chair.
Anyway, I'm sure your job won't be as bad. :)
When do you start?
The more I hear about everyone elses job the more I think I'm in paradise.
Mmmmmm Research & Development.
The stress makes the good days feel 100x better.
I'll join on Monday.Quote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
water on the chair.. NICE!
also.. u can undo all the bolts on the chair.. so when he leans back... BAM!
If you have a staple remover, you can wedge it in those chairs that have the release "tab" (not the ones with the lever, but the ones that have a built-in handle). If you do it right, the chair will sink to the floor when someone sits in it.
7halo -- Check this out
I used it many times in college ! :lol:Quote:
Do a "Print Screen" of the user's desktop, and then paste the image from the clipboard to a photo program, and save the image as a bitmap. Then, set the 'snapshot' of their desktop as the actual desktop wallpaper. (You'll have to hide the Windows status bar, and move all their desktop icons into a folder, which you can hide conspicuously in the corner or something.) The user will see their desktop as always, but everything on it will appear to be frozen when they try to click on it...sending them into a rebooting and virus scanning fit!
Just switched ny "n" amd "m" keys aroumd :)
Problem is i touch type most of the time, so it makes no difference :p
Why would you switch your own keys around lol :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by thegreatone
-Of course we all know the "tape the hang up lever" on the phone and call them when they get back to their desk.
-Along with the removing the mouse ball.
--Or if that's not applicable, putting tape over the infared eye.
I'll check that link out tonight when I get home, I don't go outside of tech sites while I'm at work. :)
thats awesome!!Quote:
Take a can of non gel shaving cream, and put it in a freezer. When it is frozen remove the bottom of the can and put it in co worker's drawer. When it melts it expands and explodes all over everything.
but not geeky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Static
To confuse the ex Gf tomorrow ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by francisstokes
Hey Congratz Buddy ... :thumb: :thumb: .
I remember you telling me about your dream job.You have snatched it right away.All the best.
1) Congrats!
2) So this means you won't be doing "real" programming?! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by iPrank
Everyone that has said "You really should know databases..." is absolutely correct. In the business world every programmer should know how to work with databases.
DB is too much complicated for me. :cry:
Give it time, you'll get used to them.
I'm the same way with Crystal Reports :)
Crystal Reports is the work of the devil!
Personnal I would like to place all Crystal Report developers (the coders) up against the wall and shoot them. As for databases take the time to learn them and not just the data control junk, learn to write the SQL yourself. I tried to hire one kid last year (still in high school) for the summer and he told me that he wouldn't do the job because he had to do database work. Not a very good start. If you don't know DB to start with just start with Access and look at the SQL written by the Query generater, it's not always the best written but it will give you a very good idea how to do it.
Congrats dude! :thumb:
Like everyone said, get your experience and then move on if they won't pay you more.
Thanks everyone. :)
It is not that I don't know SQL. I know basic SQL/Access/MS-SQL from college. Actually DBMS theory is a subject in my masters degree curriculum. We'll have it in next sem.
But, I find it veeery boring. :(
I used to be that way, but once I properly got my head around some of the more awkward concepts I realised how powerful DB's are... you can search a huge list of data and return only data matching your requirements (or just summary info), and it only takes a fraction of a second.
The good news is that once you understand it well, it doesn't take long to write the code either.
Oh, and congrats! http://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2006/02/1.gif
Congratulations!
Jut remember that once your feet are under the desk and you're sitting pretty . . . that this is not a position you need to be in. You always need to keep learning, and keep moving forward; that, after all, is one of the better aspects of the job.
Databases are key to almost any aspect of the job, these days. I've worked with illiterate ASP programmers who don't mind excessive round-trips. An education for these sorts of people is always painful (in more ways than one) (BTW theory is always boring when you have nothing to relate it too; once you start your job, you'll have plenty of stuff to apply it too. You'll probably need to refer back to your MSc notes, too)
Most of all: ALL THE BEST. It can be difficult to get on the first rung of the ladder, but now you're there make the best of it!
:thumb:
Just a peice of advice - The first thing you need to do in a new programming job is to find out the biggest, most complicated and critical application they have... And then break it. That way, everyday from there on out can only be better... And also, whenever something minor happens and people complain; you can supress them by saying "This isn't nearly as bad as when foobar went down." Of course they'd all agree and go back to their desks counting their blessings.